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Tuesday, Feb 28 2017, 6AM
Good morning and happy fat tuesday! Okkervil River are playing the Triple Door on May 6th! Portland the night before at Mississippi Studios!
In Seattle May 8th at the Neptune and the night after in Portland!
The War on Drugs stopped by KEXP back in 2014 for a great in-studio. Watch them perform four other tracks from this album: blog.kexp.org
Ben Gibbard will be solo for a sold out show at the Showbox on March 5th. Check out these videos of him solo for Little Big Show #10 www.youtube.com & www.youtube.com
"Where’s the snark? The ire? The ironic detachment? Apparently, Jane’s Addiction managed to overcome all of this to momentarily unite the KCMU DJs (to even their own surprise) in rock bliss." Not your usual Review Revue. The only thing anyone seemed to dislike was the cover art blog.kexp.org
"There was an almost punk-rock tenacity to the way he would force you to listen to the effeminate side of his voice. I saw shows with a room full of guys wearing flannel shirts, and he would bring a song down to him singing vocal runs a cappella. He would keep doing it to the point that it was beyond discomfort for these guys who were all standing there trying to be tough. You would be uncomfortable for so long that you would then have this rejuvenation and discovery that this guy was fearless. Listening to him sing — it's one of those indications that the human race isn't all bad and life is worth living and there is beauty and brilliance in humanity." - Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com
Hurray For The Riff Raff will be at the Crocodile on June 16th with Making Movies
On June 28th Ryan Adams will be at the Paramount. Here you can check out a review of his show there back in 2008 blog.kexp.org
No tour dates announced for the new album yet so here they are live at KEXP in 2013 blog.kexp.org
Jim James of My Morning Jacket was just at the Neptune back in December. blog.kexp.org
Mule Variations won a Grammy in 2000 for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Learn more about the storyteller and poet with a KEXP documentary on Tom Waits blog.kexp.org
Back-up singers on this track are Cantor Gideon Zelermyer and the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim men’s choir helping take Leonard Cohen "back to his Jewish roots" www.timesofisrael.com
He'll be in Portland on June 21st but it is sold out. Tickets still available for dates in southern California for those who fancy a road trip! See all the US dates here www.nickcave.com
New old Beck. While we're waiting for the album that was supposed to be out last October film director D. J. Caruso has leaked two unreleased Beck songs which were used in Caruso’s 2011 movie I Am Number Four. The second doesn't even have a title... www.stereogum.com
"Blue Wave is a dazzling synth-rock diamond, and its the most fun you’ll have with heartbreak all year." Here's the full KEXP review of Blue Wave blog.kexp.org
Plenty of limed vinyl editions for pre-oder... First Press (Vinyl):
500 - Light Blue / White / Orange Tri-Color [Pre-order Exclusive]
1500 - White with Orange + Light Blue Splatter [Online/Tour/Retail Variant]
500 - Orange [Tour Exclusive]
1000 - Light Blue [Retail Exclusive]
She's playing a sold out show in Seattle on May 5th at the WaMu Theater
The sample in the middle of the song is from the 1982 documentary Soldier Girls, which is about women training for war.
The lengthy Jazz piano solo by is by Squeeze's Jools Holland (better known now as the host of BBC' TV's music show Later). Asked by Uncut magazine August 2014 how they got Holland to play on the track, Matt Johnson replied: "The garden (studios) had this beautiful little Yamaha C3 Baby Grand, and the decision was, 'We have this fantastically long outro for 'Uncertain Smile.' We need to put this piano on something. Who do we know who can play it? Jools showed up, cool as a cucumber despite the sweltering heat, dressed in leathers, and he was absolutely charming."
"I think he had one run-through, said, 'Let's go for it,' and laid the whole thing down," Johnson added. "There was just one drop-in we did towards the end. We were amazed. He told me years later, he gets asked about that more than anything he's ever done."
Quick clip of Elbow performing and Guy Garvey being interviewed yesterday on an Irish chat show. www.rte.ie
A large double-bass was used in this song about Keith Richards' breakup with his girlfriend. Bill Wyman plucked the notes while Richards played it with a bow.
A perennial favorite on the Song of the Day podcast, here are a few from Sufjan Stevens: blog.kexp.org blog.kexp.org blog.kexp.org
Back in June 2015 Chateau Lobby #4 was Song of the Day as part of a week featuring artists performing at the Capitol Hill Block Party blog.kexp.org
"Melancholy is the primary fuel source of indie rock, the emotional petroleum that drives the creative engine of a thousand guitar-wielding Droopy Dans and Dianes." Read the full Pitchfork review of Son of Evil Reindeer... pitchfork.com
Middle Kids were on the Morning Show on the 21st. Check out their in-studio on the streaming archive!
Wussy toured last year in support of Forever Sounds and stopped by KEXP where they performed five tracks. Check out the full performance blog.kexp.org
"looking at my list I love a story within a song" John put "This Year" by the Mountain Goats at #9 on his all time favorite songs back in 2011 blog.kexp.org
They're playing March 18th in Astoria, Oregon at the Liberty Theater!
Go see Shelby Earl this Saturday at the Tractor. No questioning, just go. www.ticketweb.com
Cataldo is performing the Fisherman's Village Music Festival in Everett March 31st - April 2nd.
Badly Drawn Boy in-stdio back in 2010... blog.kexp.org
Hope you didn't miss them when they played Seattle February 17th! Here's another track from Life Without Sound... "Modern Act" on the Song of the Day podcast. blog.kexp.org
The Wedding Present will be on KEXP on April 25th and then that night at the Crocodile!
All about that signature psychedelic guitar sound with KEXP's Saturday Afternoon Artis feature on T. Rex blog.kexp.org
The black-and-white music video for You Better You Bet features the band and keyboardist John Bundrick playing the song onstage. It was the fourth clip played on MTV and was also the 54th, making it the first video to be shown on MTV more than once.
Seattle on March 18th is sold out but there appear to be tickets available for Portland on the 17th
On the Morning Show "Raconte-Moi Une Histoire" is pronounced "Frog Song"
Broken Social Scene live from CMJ back in 2009... "a laid-back, practically impromptu set, featuring songs helmed by a few of the multiple songwriters: Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew, and Andrew Whiteman, joined by drummer Justin Peroff and multi-instrumentalist Charles Spearin" blog.kexp.org
This track showing up at #2 on John's all time favorites circa 2011 blog.kexp.org
"The songs on Up a Tree don't wander far from the backyard. Actually, three of them don't even leave the treehouse. " Check out the Pitchfork review here: pitchfork.com
More of The Twilight Sad from the 2015 VIP concert at the Triple Door blog.kexp.org
Follow up Radio Silence with Quiet Americans, also from Jet Plane and Oxbow blog.kexp.org
